Fascinating and controversial examination of how evolutionary theory sheds light on human nature using reproductive issues as a focus.

The text starts explaining the theory of evolution and further chapters discuss the human journey.

A revised edition of an established text on human growth and development from an anthropological and evolutionary perspective.

This book examines the demographic behaviour of families in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany.

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A history of the changing intellectual attitudes in 16th- and 17th-century Spain towards the American Indians and their society.

Childhood is a uniquely human life-stage, and is both a biological phenomenon and a social construct. Research on children is currently of wide-ranging interest. This book ...

The implications of tool-use behaviour in chimpanzees for reconstructing the evolutionary origins of human culture are discussed in this book.

An interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility.

Edited work on behavioural strategies of primates in foraging for food, and avoiding being eaten.